Alexa Is Going To Follow You Everywhere

f you’ve ever slept in a hotel, you’ve no doubt experienced that moment of laziness: You wake up in the middle of the night and wish you could change the room’s temperature without having to get out of bed.

Now Amazon plans to make your slothful dream a reality. The company is developing a special version of its Alexa voice assistant for hospitality. In the near future, Marriot hotel rooms will be fitted with their own Echo Alexa devices which can be used to call room service, adjust the lights, play music, or turn on the TV, just by asking it.

This is the future.

Depending on how you feel about such things, it might be a cool or creepy future. But either way, you’ll soon be seeing Alexa and other types of voice computing far beyond the home. This expansion also heralds a deeper shift: the rise of ubiquitous computing, in which computing will leave personal devices and just kind of be everywhere. It’s likely to be among the single biggest shifts in technology for the years to come.